The purpose for the trip was to have a fun weekend and get out of the cold Northeast and to go to fun restaurants. We generally like non-fancy restaurants with some character.<\/p>\n
We arrived on Wed. 3\/16 and dropped off our bags at the hotel. They suggested Coop’s Place<\/a>, Fiorella’s<\/a> or Gumbo Shop<\/a> for lunch, and said they would call when our room was ready. The phone call was a nice touch that I hadn’t experienced before.<\/p>\n We were planning to go to Coop’s anyway, but we appreciated her suggestions.<\/p>\n Coop’s for lunch, with perfect timing as we managed to grab a table without a wait. The duck quesadilla, crab stuffed jalepeno poppers, blackened redfish po’boy and green beans cooked in bacon fat were all excellent, and the portion sizes were enough to satisfy us without leaving us over-stuffed.<\/p>\n I forgot to pack a hat (in a rush!) and found one on a sale rack in one of the French Market<\/a> stalls- not the flea market part that was cute and inexpensive.<\/p>\n We met a friend at Margaritaville (hey, don’t knock it, we’re parrotheads and the beers were $2 at happy hour) and were highly entertained by the live music.<\/p>\n For dinner we went to Frenchmen Street<\/a> to have dinner at Adolfo’s<\/a>. We had seen it in a rather odd guidebook and it sounded fun. Even at 8 pm on a Wednesday we still had a hefty wait of a little over an hour, but that was spent pleasantly enough in the scruffy Apple Barrel<\/a> bar downstairs. The singer that night is a waitress at Adolfos’s when she isn’t singing.<\/p>\n I think our waiter was named Ramon and he was bossy and told us what we wanted for our dinner which cracked us up and he was exactly right for all 3 of our meals. Lamb (full 8 rib rack), Fish with the lemon\/caper sauce and Fish with the Ocean Sauce. Glad I tried the Ocean Sauce, but would probably pick a different one next time. The pasta marinara that came as a side looked ordinary, but the sauce was good. We threw the waiter off by asking for an order of mussels after we had put our dinner orders in, and we never saw the mussels, and he couldn’t remember how many glasses of wine we had ordered. This restaurant is a tiny 11 table, 2nd floor charmer and we had a blast. I think going with a large group or expectations of something ‘fancy’ would result in dissapointment though. Character, yes. Speedy charming service, no. We will keep it on our list for a future visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The purpose for the trip was to have a fun weekend and get out of the cold Northeast and to go to fun restaurants. We generally like non-fancy restaurants with some character. We arrived on Wed. 3\/16 and dropped off our bags at the hotel. They suggested Coop’s Place, Fiorella’s or Gumbo Shop for lunch, … Continue reading Otto’s trip report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentryville.net\/nola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}